Washington post: By Thomas Erdbrink and Joby Warrick, Friday, January 6, 9:06 AM TEHRAN — At a time when U.S. officials are increasingly confident that economic and political pressure alone may succeed in curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mood here has turned bleak and belligerent as Iranians prepare grimly for […]
The question remains: are the Americans really leaving Iraq? Or are they leaving from the door to come back in through the window? The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is twice the size of the White House, covering an area of 104 acres. In addition to the mammoth complex, there are […]
By ARAB NEWS MANAMA: The Bahraini authorities announced on Thursday that five police officers would face trial next month over the death by torture of two detainees linked to anti-regime protests earlier this year. Nawaf Abdullah Hamza the Public Prosecution was quoted by the state news agency BNA that after […]
WASHINGTON — US officials suspect that Yemen fed them false intelligence for a 2010 strike against Al Qaeda suspects that killed a local leader locked in a dispute with the president’s family, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The disclosure of such an incident would complicate relations between the two […]
By SARAH EL DEEB | AP CAIRO: Egypt’s state prosecutor on Monday charged two Israelis and a Ukrainian with smuggling weapons and trying to implicate Egyptian security, the first case of its kind against foreigners since longtime President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February. A statement from the prosecutor’s office […]
NY Times: A senior Iranian official on Tuesday delivered a sharp threat in response to economic sanctions being readied by the United States, saying his country would retaliate against any crackdown by blocking all oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for transporting about one-fifth of the […]
RT News: Although Germany and Russia have developed into modern democracies with free-market systems, NATO still fears the revival of the former Nazi and Soviet states, says Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin, Russia’s former Permanent Representative to NATO, told officers of the Aerospace Forces in the restricted area of […]
USA Today: Jon Rosen: As he argues in his new book, Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, QE is an “exercise in deception” that offers little chance of promoting long-term economic recovery. Worse, it has left the dollar highly vulnerable to speculation and, ultimately, a cataclysmic crash. […]
BAGHDAD, 23 December 2011 (IRIN) – Every day, the bleak concrete blast walls circling Baghdad’s northern neighbourhood of Adhamiya trigger flashbacks in the mind of Sahib Awad Maarouf of the violence which plagued Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion. “It annoys me and others to see them every day,” said […]
DUBAI — The violent repression of dissent in Syria has sparked an explosion of satire produced by anonymous artists who are flooding the Internet with film, music and art that […]
DAWN: Nadeem Paracha: OP-ED: When on December 18 leaders from more than a dozen radical religious parties, certain down-and-out politicians, one very verbose former ISI chief and the son of a bygone and dead dictator graced the ‘Defend Pakistan’ rally organised by the controversial Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD), I wondered, was the […]
RT: When guns fall silent and ceasefires are agreed, wars live on in the minds of the men and women who fought them. And a killer still stalks them, more deadly than the enemies they once faced. Being in a conflict environment is killing US soldiers. But surprisingly, the biggest […]
Former German lawmaker Norman Paech says any Israeli venture to launch a military strike against Iran would spell the end of Tel Aviv regime. A war with Iran would be […]
Record Number of Palestinians Displaced by Unlawful Demolitions Amnesty International, one member of a 20 member strong coalition of major international humanitarian and human rights organizations that work in Israel […]
AT THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER—The final convoy of U.S. troops left Iraq early Sunday, bringing a nearly nine-year military mission to a definitive close. The column of armored trucks and tractor […]
Source: CNN Author: Tony Karon Saddam Hussein has gone, but at a cost to his own people of almost nine years of war, civil strife, terrorism and occupation that left more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead and millions displaced from their homes, infrastructure destroyed (water and electricity supplies in Iraq […]
DAMASCUS (AFP) – The Arab League threatened on Saturday to take Syria to the UN for procrastinating over its deadly crackdown on dissent, as an Iraqi mediator reported “positive” talks […]
By Antoine Ghattas Saab The Daily Star, Lebanon The Vatican is engaged in an attempt to resolve the nine-month-old crisis in Syria, while the United States is preparing to strike […]
The article is not worth reading. Therefore I am just copying one of the comments: MUKHTAR N. SHEIKH, Dec 16, 2011 10:04 Queer, isn’t it? After all the deaths (4,500 […]
US GO HOME !!! With Pleasure !!!